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  2. Brian Sutton-Smith - Wikipedia

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    Brian Sutton-Smith in the 1970s. Brian Sutton Smith (July 15, 1924 – March 7, 2015), [1] better known as Brian Sutton-Smith, was a play theorist who spent his lifetime attempting to discover the cultural significance of play in human life, arguing that any useful definition of play must apply to both adults and children.

  3. Play (activity) - Wikipedia

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    Philosopher Roger Caillois wrote about play in his 1961 book Man, Play and Games. [importance?] Free-form play gives children the freedom to decide what they want to play and how it will be played. Both the activity and the rules are subject to change in this form, and children can make any changes to the rules or objectives of the play at any ...

  4. Theoretical psychology - Wikipedia

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    Theoretical psychology is not fundamental or comprehensive theory of psychology, rather, for theoretical psychology to operate correctly it is important to supplement empirical psychology and give reason to topics and produce theories until they can be empirically verified by the other branches of psychology. [1]

  5. Play therapy - Wikipedia

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    Play therapy is an evidence based approach for children that allows them to find ways to learn, process their emotions, and make meaning of the world around them. Play therapy can be used for several reasons including trauma, autism, behavior, attachment, and language.

  6. Learning through play - Wikipedia

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    Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments.

  7. Homo Ludens - Wikipedia

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    Play is free, is in fact freedom. Play is not "ordinary" or "real" life. Play is distinct from "ordinary" life both as to locality and duration. Play creates order, is order. Play demands order absolute and supreme. Play is connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained from it. [9] Huizinga shows that in ritual dances a ...

  8. Free play - Wikipedia

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    Free play is not merely a pastime; it is a fundamental process through which children learn and develop across multiple domains. [3] [6] The seemingly unstructured nature of free play masks the complex cognitive, social, and emotional processes taking place, which are difficult to quantify but essential for a child's development. [3] [1]

  9. Psi-theory - Wikipedia

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    Psi-theory, developed by Dietrich Dörner at the University of Bamberg, is a systemic psychological theory covering human action regulation, intention selection and emotion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It models the human mind as an information processing agent, controlled by a set of basic physiological, social and cognitive drives.